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SUBMITTER: Sikdar S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881898 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sikdar Samapan S Banerjee Manidipa M Vemparala Satyavani S
The Journal of membrane biology 20220226 2-3
The importance of disulphide bond in mediating viral peptide entry into host cells is well known. In the present work, we elucidate the role of disulphide (SS) bond in partitioning mechanism of membrane-active Hepatitis A Virus-2B (HAV-2B) peptide, which harbours three cysteine residues promoting formation of multiple SS-bonded states. The inclusion of SS-bond not only results in a compact conformation but also induces distorted α-helical hairpin geometry in comparison to SS-free state. Owing to ...[more]